Teach A TeacherMac Edition

Do you think that students are better with ICT than teachers?

Do you agree that teachers need help?

The aim of this project is for you to teach a teacher about the Mac computer system.

This will happen in two ways…

1. Build a wikiWorking collaboratively, you will use a wiki to build an online manual for your teachers to use. All Year 7 students will work

on one system together.

2. TeachingWorking in pairs, you will plan and execute a 10-minute

lesson for a teacher of your choosing. You will have to teach them what they want to know.

So, what is a wiki?

Wikipedia is the most famous example of a wiki.

Its content has been built up by thousands of

individuals, working in different locations at different times.

What makes wikis great?

1. CollaborativeInstead of getting one person’s ideas, you can harness the “wisdom

of crowds” to get something better.

2. Free(dom)People can work on what they want, and say what they want.

3. FlexiblePeople can work together, eve if they work at different

times from different places.

4. InstantChanges can be made any time and are immediately viewable. Unlike

books, you do not need to reprint.

How will your work be assessed?

Use this Rubric to Guide You

Welcome to ICHKWiki

Let’s look at how you can log in and get started.

Browse to www.ichk.edu.hk/wiki then click “Log in”.

Getting Started

Click on the name of a page to get started.

Click on the edit tab.

Editing A Page

To input text, simply start typing in the text area.

Editing Text

For advanced functions, hover over a button

to see what it does, click to insert the object, and then

edit the text.

For ordered lists, use a * before your text. Extra stars

cause the text to indent.

When you are finished, click on the “Save page” button under the text area.

Advanced Techniques

1. LinksUse the link buttons in the Edit page to create a link internally to a

wiki page or externally to another website.

2. Screen CaptureUse Mac’s Cmd-Shift-4 shortcut to capture part of the screen.

3. Upload & Insert ImageUpload an image to the wiki and insert it into a page.

4. CitationTo include citations to show your sources, see

www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php#Usage.

Beware revision control!

The wiki system tracks all changes made to the contents of all pages. If you are thinking of vandalising the wiki,

you will get caught…

…it also allows me to see exactly how much work you have contributed, so you cannot hide behind others.

Let’s begin editing…

LicensingAll original work used here is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-

Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Hong Kong License. For more details please look http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/hk/.

This license has been chosen to permit a high degree of sharing, whilst protecting the author’s control as to how the content is used.

Please respect this license and use accordingly!

Recycled and borrowed works from other sources are used under appropriate licenses, which are not affected by this license.

The original source is always given. All original work created by Ross Parker (International College Hong Kong), except where specified.

CreditsAluminium iMac Image

Matthieu Riegler, Wikimedia Commonshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IMac_aluminium.png